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Adult health assessments

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Analysing adult health assessments is a key element of assessing adopters and foster carers. This includes providing reports and evidence-based comments so that panels can reach appropriate decisions. This course is designed to support medical advisers in their role. It is particularly suitable for new or inexperienced medical advisers.

Elfa and the box of memories

Bookshop product- 978 1 905664 42 9 - Michelle Bell

Memories can be good and bad, happy and sad; those we want to keep alive and others we would rather forget. Looked after children may have more difficult memories that most, because of separation and loss and traumatic events that may have taken place. In this charming picture book, Elfa the elephant discovers that sharing her memories and remembering the good things that happened is more helpful than keeping them locked away.

Exploring Expertise: Access to records for care-experienced and adopted people

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
Help to safeguard vital information and improve the culture, processes and experience of all involved in developing and receiving records by contributing to forthcoming guidance on managing the records of care-experienced and adopted people in England and Wales. This participatory session will shape forthcoming best practice guidance for managing care-experienced and adopted people’s records in England and Wales. Sarah Wickham is a consultant information manager and archivist. She has worked in the public and private sector over her 30-year career. With Kevin Bolton, Sarah is delivering this project for the Chief Archivists In Local Government Group (CALGG) of the Archives and Records Association.

Learning from Research: The wellbeing of children in care - comparing those in kinship and unrelated foster care

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FREE EVENT
The presentation will use data from the Bright Spots Programme, a joint partnership between Coram Voice and the University of Oxford, funded by the Hadley Trust. This session examines the views of over 1,200 children (4-10yrs) and young people (11-18yrs) in kinship foster care in 38 local authorities comparing their well-being indicators with those in unrelated foster care. Our presenters are Julie Selwyn, Professor of Education and Adoption Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, and Linda Briheim, Head of Policy and Practice Development at Coram Voice.

Lunch & Learn: Expressions of Self | Understanding care-experienced young people’s intersectional identities, through their stories

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OPEN TO ALL
Part three of our Lunch & Learn series in collaboration with Adoption England. The Nuffield-funded Expressions of Self research project aimed to listen to minoritised looked-after children and young people’s narratives on ethnicity, religion and identity, to inform policy and practice about their needs. In this session, we will use young people’s stories of identity and negotiating their identity to showcase learnings for frontline social workers. We will explore the different kinds of impact that their identities can have on young people’s journeys through care. Our presenters are Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Kusha Anand (PhD) and Assistant Professor Alison Halford of Coventry University.